Friday, 6 February 2015

On Thursday 5 February 2015



. . . an unidentified woman reportedly began complaining that the children were being disruptive. Noticing Hider's headscarf, the woman turned toward the mom and allegedly said, "This is America!"

Source : Huffington Post

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. . . Iraqi soldier died attempting to pull himself up over the dashboard of his truck. The flames engulfed his vehicle and incinerated his body, turning him to dusty ash and blackened bone. . . Jarecke took the picture just before a ceasefire . . . The image . . .went unpublished in the United States, not because of military obstruction but because of editorial choices.

Source : The Atlantic
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 It may be Women’s Week at the Vatican, but you have to look carefully at the skirts to find many women. However well-intentioned Vatican officials may be, they embody Murphy’s Law when it comes to women: everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Maybe if women were more than bit players, things might improve.

Source : Religion Dispatches
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NEWS

White House Woos AmericanMuslims as Obama Hardens Stance
(Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration is reaching out to American Muslim leaders as it tries to stem extremism in the U.S. while heading off a ...


Why Muslim Woman Started 1st All-Female Mosque in the US
One Muslim woman in California has made history by starting the first all-female mosque in the United States. It opened last week in Los Angeles.


Muslim Persecution of Christians: A Centuries Old Phenomenon
Muslims from among America's allies (Saudi Arabia) and from its enemies (Iran); Muslims from economically rich nations (Qatar) and from poor nations ...


Here Is An ISIS Guide To Life As A Muslim Woman
The average Muslim man should not exploit his position to overpower or hurt. The averageMuslim man is characterised by goodness and sympathy ...


Muslims Want Reservation, Not Quran and Computers: Owaisi
PUNE: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi Wednesday made an impassioned plea to the government to give ...


Muslim American groups slam Pentagon essay contest honoring Saudi king
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is sponsoring an essay competition at National Defense University as "a fitting tribute to the ...




Is America at War with RadicalIslam?
Rudy Giuliani agrees: “If we can't use the words 'radical Islamic terrorism,' we can't get rid of them.” So does Ted Cruz. At the Iowa Freedom Summit in ...


Islamic poets wrote their own crude irreverent satire, centuries before Charlie Hebdo
They aren't referring to the people who commit violence in the name of Islam, but rather figures like Tariq Ramadan, an Egyptian-born academic who ...


Damascus rocket attacks kill three after Islam Army warning
Islam Army struck with at least 38 rockets on Jan. 25, killing seven people, the Observatory said, in one of the heaviest attacks on the city in over a year ...


ÖZGÜR KORKMAZ > Eye for an eye: Killing all jihadists in the name of Islam
The brutal murders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have prompted Islamic-style reactions - including execution of its members and ...


Liberals: ISIS Is Very "Un-Islamic"
If you want to differentiate, Jordan clearly is not extreme Islam, at least not in the government of King Abdullah. Saudi Arabia? Now, that's a different ...

BLOGS
Hundreds More Muslim Rape Gang Cases Discovered in UK
jk The Muslim rape gang scandal in Britain just keeps getting worse. Last August, the BBC reported that “at least 1,400 children were subjected to ...


Yes, we are comfortable doing business with theMuslim Brotherhood
Free Beacon reports that the State Department admitted that they are in fact quite comfortable doing business with the Muslim Brotherhood.


Chris Kyle's killer may have been a Muslimsympathizer and not suffering from PTSD
Turns out that Chris Kyle's killer, Eddie Routh, was likely not suffering from PTSD after all as new facts have emerged via a FOIA request by the War ...

WEB

When will Muslim leaders publicly denounce ISIS?
Editor's Picks. From breaking news to interviews with key newsmakers, watch must-see video highlights from Fox News Channel. 6:38. When will ...


Algonquin College, Muslim Students Association denounce extremism
Ottawa's Algonquin College and its Muslim Student Association say they're working to fight extremism after current and former members have been ...


Obama Muslim meeting said to focus on 'alarming rise' of bigotry
The White House won't say who attended a meeting between Muslimleaders andPresident Obama at the White House on Wednesday, but comedian ...

Institutions and rights: how integrated is Islam?
The authors of the collected volume After Integration: Islam, Conviviality and Contentious Politics in Europe examine the subject of integration from a ...


Covering Islam 2015: Muslims, Politics, and the Media
Covering Islam 2015: Muslims, Politics, and the Media. February 9, 2015 4-6PM (with reception following). The Grand Hall at the Neal Marshall Black ...


Crossing the Borders? - A Discussion on Politics,Islam and Activism
Since 2012, the above-mentioned researchers have investigated the nature of Islamic militant activist networks in the Netherlands, Belgium and ...

Thursday, 5 February 2015

On Wednesday 4 February 2015

In the muddy sediments beneath the deep sea, scientists have found ancient communities of bacteria that have remained virtually unchanged for 2.3 billion years. 


Source : LA Times
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NEWS



Christianity, Islam and Locke
There is one passage from Locke that is often quoted to challenge the idea that Christianity is simply ahead of Islam in learning to accept religious ...


White House Says 'Foreign Fighters,' Not Just Radical Islam, Will Be Main Focus of 'Extremism ...
Speaking on the same afternoon that the IslamicState released a gruesome video showing a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive, ...
Islam directs treatment of women to be just, compassionate, humane, speaker tells Interfaith Tea
About 80 people attended the 69th annual Interfaith Tea Tuesday afternoon hosted for the first time by the Islamic Society of Greater Youngstown at ...


Lawmaker Sort Of Sorry For Asking Texas Muslims To Pledge Allegiance To US
Texas state Rep. Molly White (R) apologized after asking Muslims in the state to “renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance ...




Muslim prayer opens meeting of Dallas County commissioners
The Dallas County Commissioners Court opened its meeting Tuesday with a Muslim prayer to show support for Muslims who drew protests at recent ...


Burning Desire: Why ISIS Torched aMuslim Prisoner
The captured Jordanian pilot burned to death by ISIS forces, Muath al-Kasaesbeh, was a Muslim. In the eyes of his executioners, his crime was that he ...


Turkey revokes passport of exiledMuslim cleric Fethullah Gulen
The Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen is pictured at home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in September 2013. He has been in self-imposed ...


BLOGS
The Countries Who Fight Terrorism Most Ruthlessly are… Muslim Countries
Muslim countries can't be accused of Islamophobia. They're rarely democratic and have little notion of human rights. Perversely that puts them in a ...


Muslim Stabs 3 French Soldiers Outside Jewish Center
Muslims are trying to turn France into a No-Go Zone for Jews.


Seattle Muslims Vandalize Building Over Mohammed Cartoons
Somali Muslim settlers in the US are reacting to the Mohammed cartoons with all the tolerance of their peaceful religion. Oh wait, those are the Amish.


Obama DEFENDS Islam in statement about ISIS video burning
Everyone knows that the Islamic State (ISIS) is Islamic, but our president still refuses to acknowledge it. More than that though, he wants to make sure ...


Here's the reason why ISIS burned Jordanian hostage alive and it definitely comes from ISLAM
Despite Obama's suggestion today that the ideology of ISIS isn'tIslamic, Walid Shoebat has analyzed the video and tells us that ISIS actually reveals ...


Islam, Europe and Free Speech
Mark is laid low by illness, and, while he recuperates, we thought you might be interested in this golden oldie from eight years ago that's been making ...


WEB
ian bremmer on Twitter: "Statelessness overlapping with radical Islam (ht @Stratfor) http://t.co ...
@ianbremmer also seems to be an overlap with places where crazy Europeans drew lines on a map where people didn't want to be a state.

'Every Muslim' Wants 'Death Penalty for Homosexuals'
Fahad Qureshi, who founded Islam Net and is considered an Islamic leader in Norway, told a large group of Sunni Muslims that, contrary to media ...


Top Muslim cleric calls for 'chopping' IS militants'
A prominent Sunni Islam cleric has called for the execution of 'IS' militants who burned a Jordanian pilot to death. Other influential Imams called ...


Armed Conflict and Compliance in Muslim States, 1947–2014: Does Conflict Look Different under ...
Regions with large Muslim populations in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa are no strangers to conflict and warfare, including protracted strife.

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

On Tuesday 3 February 2015


The Holy Quran is not anti-Semitic - says a Rabbi


Forward Thinking Blog
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. . . Americans quickly turned to twitter and Youtube to post their disgust at having being subjected to a Muslim without warning


Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

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NEWS


Muslim women answer Wester New Yorkers questions about hijab
“The public is with this understanding [Muslimwomen] are forced to cover ourselves. Our reason for wearing it is freedom. It is not oppression by any ...



Anti-Muslim protesters as rigid as extremists
Muslim participants cheered over protesters during a rally at the state Capitol in Austin on Thursday, which was lobbying day for all special interest ...






Muslim Man Jailed in UK for Planning to Join Rebels in Syria
A Muslim student who had been planning to join Islamic extremists in Syria has been jailed in Britain for 3 ½ years. David Souaan was sentenced ...



In Japan, Nervous Muslims Condemn Islamic State
TOKYO—Muslim leaders in Japan have moved to condemn the terrorist group responsible for the apparent killing of Japanese hostages, worried that ...



Jeep puts Muslim woman in Super Bowl ad, world ends for some people
US carmaker Jeep managed to make a very small minority of the internet angry by daring to show a picture of a Muslim woman in its Super Bowl ...



California Muslim civil liberties group stands with Jewish fraternity targeted in hate crime
While detectives investigate spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house as a hate crime, a Muslim ...



Muslim women in Los Angeles start a mosque of their own
30, 2015, as dozens of women gathered for FridayMuslim prayers in what is being dubbed the first women's-only mosque in the United States.



Turkey embraces Muslim Uighurs who made perilous escape from China
Embraced by sympathetic locals who regard theMuslim migrants as ethnic and religious brethren, they are viewed askance by Chinese authorities ...





Europeans debate Islam and terror
Some of them concern the relationship betweenIslam and the kind of terrorism committed in its name. Yet, the way the respective debates are being ...



Graham: Obama Misunderstanding of Radical Islam Like Pre-WWII Europe
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) compared President Obama's misunderstanding of radicalIslam to the pre-World War II failure to recognize the threat ...



Islamic Ideology: Identifying the Enemy
Iran has encouraged Islamic supremacists, both Shi'ite and Sunni, to take ever bolder action– as evidenced by the atrocities being committed by the ...



Why 'Islamic' is important
In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, file photo, Iraqi security forces hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during an operation outside Amirli, ...
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Syrian Filmmakers Mock Islamic State in Satirical Videos
GAZIANTEP, Turkey— Youssef Helali, who joined the Syrian uprising in its early days, has seen many of his one-time comrades embrace Islamic ...



Swastikas found on Vienna mosque before anti-Islam march
VIENNA, Austria — Vandals sprayed several swastikas on a Vienna mosque, Austrian police said Monday ahead of the country's first demonstration ...